Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Update - April 20, 2010 This update includes: * Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 15th Annual NYC Winter Cabaret. Final show! * Bindlestiff's Open Variety Stage Show, Brooklyn, NY * Bindlestiff Family Cirkus & Walking the Dog Theatre Benefit Evening, Hudson, NY * Upcoming Bindlestiff Events * NYC Unicycle Bridge Tour * The Bindlestiff's Webisode Series * Bring the Cirkus to your town * New Bindlestiff Videos on YouTube * Support the Variety Arts For the most up to date info visit http://www.bindlestiff.org or call 1-877-BINDLES * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 15th Annual NYC Winter Cabaret Final Performance! THIS SUNDAY April 25, 2010 Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie Street, New York, NY Showtime: 8 pm Cocktail Lounge opens at 7 pm. Admission: $20 ($5 discount for clowns in make-up) Tickets: 212-219-0736 www.dixonplace.org Info: 1-877-BINDLES www.bindlestiff.org The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret at Dixon Place. Bindlestiff's 2010 Cabaret features different fabulous guest acts each week from the world's best in Circus, Variety, Burlesque, Sideshow, and Physical Comedy. Live, original music each week by the Mystic Orchestra. Join Ringmistress Philomena, Kinko the Clown, and Mr. Pennygaff and their amazing line-up of special guests for the last NYC Cabaret Show of the season. The April 25 Cirkus Cabaret features Magic Brian, Tanya Gagne, Dance Paradizo, Michael Karas and surprises. See www.bindlestiff.org or call 1-877-BINDLES for weekly updates * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bindlestiff Open Variety Stage Show May 3, 2010 at Galapagos Arts Space, 16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY First Monday of Every Month Coming Shows: April 5, May 3, June 7, July 5... Door $5 Showtime: 8 pm A First Look at NYC's Finest Emerging Variety Talents Circus * Sideshow * Vaudeville * Burlesque * Dance * Music Come to Dumbo Brooklyn for a spectacular night of variety entertainment: tap dancing bears, Kung Fu juggling, trained rats, clown bands, aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, a bit of burlesque, physical comedy, contortionists and cowboys. Every show offers amazing sights, quirky surprises, and some of the best variety artists working New York and the world. And at every show you will witness your host Keith "Bindlestiff" Nelson attempt the Human Blockhead Kendama Feat. Always entertaining, sometimes almost successful, this daring and painful feat has never been accomplished. Every month you can expect a different line up of emerging artists and world class entertainers. Galapagos Art Space has dedicating the one Monday of every month to New York City's variety, vaudeville, aerial, and circus artists. Celebrating works in progress, emerging artists, and professionals trying something new, this night promises many surprises. Next show is May 3. For more information and to buy tickets go to http://www.galapagosartspace.com Get tickets now http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=BIN4 A Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. and Galapagos Art Space production * * * If you would like to be on the stage, email keith@bindlestiff.org. Write 'Open Variety' in the subject line! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and Walking the Dog Theatre Team Up for Benefit Evening April 24, 2010 at Space 360, 360 Warren Street, Hudson, NY Showtime: 8 pm Suggested Donation: $20 Walking the dog Theater’s OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble teams up with Bindlestiff Family Cirkus co-founders and variety artists Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu for an evening of circus and improvisation, April 24th at 8pm at Space 360, 360 Warren St, Hudson. Suggested donation is $20. Bindlestiff will bring a few of it’s own acts, featuring a twisted take on physical comedy and prop manipulation to the mix, in addition to some new, original collaborative fun with Walking the dog Theater’s Improv cast. Walking the dog Theater, a keystone of Columbia County’s artistic community, has been at the forefront of collaboration and support for other local arts groups, offering benefit performances of it’s monthly OFF LEASH! Improv Theater Ensemble to raise funds and awareness for local artists and organizations. March’s performance benefited the Awgawamuck Project for the Fine and Practical Arts, a new educational-therapeutic initiative based in Philmont. April’s show will benefit Bindlestiff- Hudson’s own Cirkus and Walking the dog Theater’s partner in GhostWALK Hudson. To find out more about Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, please visit http://www.bindlestiff.org For more information, please contact: David Anderson david@wtdtheater.org (518) 610-0909. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Upcoming Bindlestiff Events - Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret returns to Hudson, NY, May 30 and June 25 at Club Helsinki. - Bindlestiff Family Cirkus returns to Spiegeltent for Summerscape 2010 at Bard College. - Bindlestiffs Cavalcade of Youth All-Stars will also be making an appearance at the Spiegeltent - Bindlestiff is organizing a NYC Unicycle Festival for September 4 on Governors Island. - Bindlestiff co-founders are a part of a 1940's themed USO show at the FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY on May 28. For more details and updates, go to the calendar at http:// www.bindlestiff.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NYC Unicycle Bridge Tour There are 2,078 bridges in the 5 boroughs of New York City. Since October 14, 2009, Keith Nelson (Bindlestiff Family Cirkus co-founder) and Rob Hickman have been making weekly treks around the city to cross every one of them.... on unicycles. The duo has been joined by several other one-wheelers. Taking advantage of cycle lanes throughout the city, the one wheel mission may be rolling through your neighborhood soon. Rides are on Wednesdays, weather permitting. You can follow the NYC Unicycle Bridge Tour at http:// unicyclenycbridgetour.blogspot.com/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Webisodes On-line! DVD of season one will be available this summer! Need a bit of time with the Bindlestiff's? Travel with the Cirkus. The Full Season One is now online. Visit http://www.thebindlestiffs.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bring the Cirkus to Your Town! All of the Bindlestiff programs--educational and performance--are available for booking. For more details contact booking@bindlestiff.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * New Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Videos on YouTube. New promotional videos are now up on YouTube including a look at 15 years of present variety arts, a cowboy clown show, The New Vaudeville Revue (a college residency program), and more coming soon. http://www.youtube.com/user/bindlestiffcirkus?feature=mhw5 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Support the Variety Arts We ask for your contribution in support of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and our mission to promote, develop and sustain the variety arts. If you feel a connection to Bindlestiff—if our unconventional vision and values speak to you, if you consider yourself a Bindlestiff at heart, or if you just love coming to our shows—we invite you to deepen that connection this year by making a tax-deductible financial contribution. We need your help to continue creating provocative, thrilling performances, conducting youth programs that develop skills and self- esteem, and cultivating a vital community of variety artists, all while keeping ticket prices accessibly low. Tax-deductible donations can be made at http://www.bindlestiff.org/menu/donate.html or by sending a check or money order to Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc., PO Box 1917, New York, NY 10009. Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and evolution of the variety arts. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bindlestiff Family Cirkus PO Box 1917 New York, NY 10009 1-877-BINDLES www.bindlestiff.org